environmental justice
October 30, 2009 -
Environmental justice leaders representing more than a dozen polluted communities from six Southern states met with Environmental Protection Agency leaders this week and asked them to take action to better protect the health of low-income communities and communities of color.
February 26, 2009 -
North Carolina is not a coal mining state, but its electric utilities are still involved in one of the most destructive mining practices used today -- mountaintop removal mining, which involves blasting off Appalachian peaks to get to the coal and dumping the resulting waste into valleys below.
February 3, 2009 -
Borrowing a strategy from the Southern Freedom Movement and other successful people's uprisings throughout U.S. history, climate activists are planning a historic rally with mass civil disobedience next month at the U.S.
January 1, 2001 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 29, "Good Jobs & Green Communities." Find more from that issue here.
August 1, 1998 -
Boosters lured chemical companies to southeast Louisiana for “economic development.” What they got was a public health nightmare and charges of environmental racism. Welcome to what residents call “Cancer Alley.”
October 1, 1994 -
How three grassroots coalitions are debunking the myth of “jobs versus environment.
December 1, 1993 -
Communities of color across the South are fighting for environmental justice.
